Gut integrity, intestinal microbiota and intestinal barrier or the strategy for enhanced performance and reduced medication and ZnO

Published on: 09/09/2018

Author/s : Dr. Milena Sevastiyanova

Abstract
The gut carries an important responsibility in selecting what can be absorbed and what should remain outside the body. To put this in the right perspective, it is important to note that the surface of the intestinal tract is 300 times the size of the surface of the skin.
Post-weaning diarrhoea (PWD) causes mortality and morbidity in pig production and is a reason for regular antibioti...

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